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Vancouver Public Schools announces personnel changes

Dozens who got layoff notices see positions restored

By Katie Gillespie, Columbian Education Reporter
Published: June 3, 2019, 8:13pm

Vancouver Public Schools on Monday announced personnel changes for the 2019-2020 school year, including the restoration of dozens of staff who had received preliminary layoff notices due to since scaled-back budget cuts.

The west Clark County school district faces an $8 million deficit, the result of declining enrollment, increased labor costs and changes to the state’s funding formula. But that’s less than half of the $16.8 million deficit the district announced earlier this year, which would have left teachers, counselors, clerks and other school staff out of work. The district received $6.5 million in one-time state money and will use $3.8 million out of its district reserves to alleviate the deficit.

On Monday, the district announced it was restoring the following positions:

• 21 teachers.

• 11.8 full-time counseling positions.

• 19 media clerks.

• Seven counseling clerks.

• Four wing clerks at Skyview High School.

• Two deans of students.

• Four teachers on special assignment who work with instructional technology and one teacher on special assignment who works in curriculum and instruction.

• Three maintenance grounds crew.

• 15 custodial positions.

The district also announced several associate principal moves. All changes must be approved by the school board before they are final. They are:

• Tony Liberatore, associate principal at Columbia River High School, will move to Fort Vancouver High School. Liberatore will replace Associate Principal John Schultz, who is leaving the district.

• Nick Davies, a teacher at Jesuit High School in Portland, will fill the associate principal position at Columbia River left by Liberatore.

• Luis Castro, currently associate principal at Gaiser Middle School, will move to Fort Vancouver High School as an associate principal.

• Alison Watson, associate principal at Fort Vancouver High School, will fill an associate principal role at Thomas Jefferson Middle School. Watson will replace Andrea Sperry, who is leaving the district.

• Mandie Arai-Green, currently a teacher and administrative intern at Ogden Elementary School, will become an associate principal at Gaiser.

• Scott Sartorius, current associate principal at Discovery Middle School, will be associate principal at Eisenhower and Lincoln elementary schools.

• Katie Ronning, current associate principal at Felida Elementary School, will be associate principal at Discovery Middle School.

• Mike Meskel, associate principal at Hudson’s Bay High School, will fill the associate position at Felida Elementary School.

• Greg Roberts, currently associate principal at Eisenhower and Lincoln elementary schools, will be associate principal at Hudson’s Bay High School. Roberts will replace Patrice Woods, who is leaving the district.

• Amber Beardmore, a teacher and administrative intern at Liberty Middle School in the Camas School District, will be associate principal at Hudson’s Bay High School.

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